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This is becoming more and more popular with sites.... some people wrote a few easy to use structures for accessing the internal contents of the popular web-based email systems and it's being abused...

I have done it on numerous occasions with my hotmail account... I don't use it for anything important and the password is unique...

Bebo, WAYN, Hi5 are just a few examples that ask you for the account information and your password... They all do different things..

The example posted above will troll your address book, and in the end give you matches from it's database so you can see your friends results.. you'll tell your friends, they'll do it... and silently in the background tickle is amassing a huge db to sell to spammers, scammers and everyone else..

With sites like Bebo, WAYN, Hi5... they email all your contacts and invite them to join the site... match you with users already joined and then store the addresses..

Unfortunately with sites like TrueSwitch which is coming with more and more of the large ISPs these days... people are accustomed to entering their details and think nothing of it...

Peace,
HT

IT Blog: .:Computer Defense:.PnCHd (Pronounced Pinched): Acronym - Point 'n Click Hacked. As in: "That website was pinched" or "The skiddie pinched my computer because I forgot to patch".

This is along what I was going to ask. Is it possible that tickle.com was hi-jacked and people are giving their email address and password to someone else? ...unless of course they have been malicious from the start!

Isn't tickle that same site that does that lame IQ test you always see on the banners?

-Deeboe

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
- Sun Tzu, The Art of War